Osmel Ramirez

For two days straight, June 19-20, the family of my mother-in-law Cecilia Carballosa Beltran, their house and farm, were victims of police harassment.

As a citizen journalist and tobacco farmer, I would go out on a limb and recommend five points or actions that could help to increase production and revenue.

The Government is telling Cubans to “boost farming efforts.” It’s nothing new, they have always said it and these words are carried away by the wind…

Over recent weeks, Cuban TV news shows have featured the unusual coverage of corruption cases linked to the private sector on the whole.

“If the cooperative can’t meet production targets when there were some supplies, what can we say will happen now when we don’t have anything?”

It’s a good and bad thing, at the same time. It helps because the few people who should have been wearing a mask and didn’t, are now being forced to…

In the early days of April, COVID-19’s appearance in Mayari was close at hand; and the first positive case would be identified at any moment.

Some people note that the risk of infection is just a “maybe”, but the need to eat and wash oneself is a “definite and immediate” need.